“Designed with the reliability demanded by business users, and a price point attractive to home users, the USB powered MobileOffice S410 scanner and document management solution converts paper documents, rigid embossed cards, expense reports, business cards and more to searchable PDF with the touch of a button in six pages per minute,” said Mark Druziak, Plustek’s director of marketing and business development.

The MobileOffice S410 can scan documents to Evernote and photos to Google Picasa by simply pressing a button. The included document management and Optical Character Recognition software suite allows for easy scanning and management of documents. DocAction single touch scanning and industry standard TWAIN drivers ensure compatibility with thousands of scanning and imaging programs including: document management, healthcare electronic medical records, financial, and thousands of other image enabled applications.

The built in automatic image processing enables the scanning of mixed sized documents with no adjustments. Images are automatically straightened, rotated and adjusted for exposure. The result is more accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Business Card Recognition (BCR) which allows for fewer pages that need to be rescanned.

N-trig and NVIDIA to Bring Smoother, More Responsive Pen and Multi-Touch Input to Tablets

Kfar Saba, Israel — N-trig today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to provide tablets with unparalleled pen and multi-touch performance and functionality. The combination of N-trig’s DuoSense® pen and multi-touch user interface with NVIDIA DirectTouch™ architecture boosts performance and enhances the user experience.

Direct Touch improves touch responsiveness by offloading a portion of the touch panel processing to the CPU cores in the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 processor, the world’s only 4-PLUS-1™ quad-core processor with a fifth battery saver core. The architecture also simplifies the implementation of touch-based hardware and user interfaces, requiring less power while delivering more scalable performance.

Michael Rayfield, General Manager of the Mobile business at NVIDIA, said, “We’re delighted to take our collaboration with N-trig to a new level in improving the touchscreen experience. The combination of DirectTouch with N-trig’s DuoSense user interface will enable device-makers to offer their customers unprecedented precision for active pen and multi-touch processing.”

N-trig DuoSense patented technology provides a pen and multi-touch user interface in a single device enabling true productivity in a mobile computing environment. The combination of multi-touch input and an intuitive, easy-to-use pen creates a truly Hands-on® experience for home, enterprise, and education. For example, in the education sector, DuoSense enables students to draw and sketch, take notes with handwriting recognition, and do homework directly on their e-textbooks resulting in a more versatile and creative way in which to interact with their computers.

“With this partnership, we bring advanced active pen and multi-touch capabilities to the tablet market, providing the user with the smoothest and most precise experience possible,” said Amichai Ben-David, CEO of N-trig. “The additional processing power provided by Tegra 3 allows device manufacturers to offer enhanced pen and multi-touch performance without increasing cost or power consumption.”

DuoSense supports all Windows, Android-based tablets and convertibles, and will be compatible with the Windows 8 operating system.

Commtouch Launches Enhanced Antivirus for Email Solution

San Francisco, Calif. RSA Conference, February 27, 2012 – Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) today announced the availability of its enhanced Antivirus for Email solution, which uses a unique dual-detection approach to ensure malware identification from the zero-hour of an outbreak through any stage of the malware lifecycle. Fast detection of new malware is made possible by a combination of:

“Email-borne malware remains a considerable threat, with well-conceived social engineering convincing recipients to open and execute harmful attachments,” said Amir Lev, Commtouch’s chief technology officer. “Commtouch’s expertise and range of services enable us to provide a unique combination of cloud-based zero-hour detection and antivirus technologies that strengthen the offerings of our service provider and vendor partners.”

Sage Announces Results of Small Business Reactions to the State of the Union Address

– Small Business Owners Weigh In On The Presidents State of the Union and What It Means To The SMB Community –

2/27/2012 9:00:00 AM – Sage is pleased to announce the results of a small business survey regarding business-related proposals outlined in President Obama’s recent State of the Union Address.

The survey was conducted amongst businesses with fewer than 100 employees. After having a month to contemplate the proposals, small business owners chose lowering taxes on small businesses, easing regulations that are impeding access to capital for small businesses and tax breaks for creating jobs in America as the three most effective ideas outlined in the state of the union address that will help their businesses grow.

Additionally, the survey found that business owners believe the top four issues that will impede the growth of small businesses in 2012 will be the cost of doing business, high taxes, too many regulations and lack of demand for their products and services.

Results

Results of the survey are available in a report format immediately by request or through a link here. Furthermore, the results of the survey are also illustrated in an infographic.

Carolyn Crummey is a business and technology strategist and the owner of VirTasktic (www.virtasktic.com), an agency dedicated to providing high-level virtual services to small businesses and entrepreneurs. A lover of technology and small business, Carolyn has built a career on the intelligent use of technology to increase business efficiency and productivity, which ultimately leads to greater profitability. Carolyn works closely with her clients to understand their challenges and helps them integrate the best technology solutions into their businesses so they too can enjoy great successes.
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